NEWS
Exhibition
Selections from the Permanent Collection
July 1, 2025 - Aug. 17, 2025 / Reception July 11, 4-8 PM
The Crisp Museum at Southeast Missouri State University
A selection of recent acquisitions and old favorites from the museum's permanent collection.
Works by Charles Keller are featured.
Presentation
"Remembering Danskammer Farm: Charles Keller in Newburgh, 1951-1961"
with Marthe Keller and Peter Brooks;
moderated by Mary McTamaney
Cocktails and Collections at Crawford House
David Crawford House
189 Montgomery Street
Newburgh, NY, 12550 United States (map)
To mark the closing of our 2024 Exhibit "From Farm to Ferry: The Art of Charles Keller in Newburgh, 1951-1961," we will welcome Marthe Keller and Peter Brooks who will discuss the artist and his works -- which now form a part of HSNBH's permanent collection -- as well as share their personal memories of Keller and their upbringing at Danskammer Farm outside of Newburgh in the 1950s.
Prints of Keller's works will be on sale in our gift shop.
Doors will open at 6pm for our reception, with the lecture beginning at 7 pm.
Come and enjoy an evening with us at the Crawford House while sipping on a cocktail or mocktail. Light refreshments will be served. This lecture is free to the public, though a donation is requested.
at the Crawford House in Newburgh, New York
From Farm to Ferry: The Art of Charles Keller in Newburgh
Marthe Keller writes:
"I am thrilled to report that my father
Charles Keller has a show on view."
Presentation
"From Farm to Ferry: The Art of Charles Keller in Newburgh"
Opening April 7, 2024
The Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands
189 Montgomery St., Newburgh, NY
We are thrilled that The Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands is opening its new season at the Crawford House with From Farm to Ferry: The Art of Charles Keller in Newburgh. The artwork in the exhibition has been donated to the Historical Society by the Estate of Charles Keller. The art on view depicts farm life and local working people, as well as a 1958 silkscreen print of the Newburgh Ferry Slip. The signed, limited edition serigraph prints will be offered at a special price during the show's run to support the Historical Society.
Click here for the complete
event announcement.
Exhibition
Charles Keller in the IFPDA Print Fair at the Javits
October 27-30, 2022
Susan Teller's expertly curated stable of artists includes luminaries Ben Shahn, Riva Helfond, and many more in her handsome booth in New York City's Javits Center.
She displayed a wall of prints whose theme is construction and construction workers. She featured Keller's 1938 lithograph Open Cut depicting the excavation of the 6th Avenue subway.
Exhibition
Ink Miami
December 1-5, 2021
The Susan Teller Gallery is showing at Ink Miami, Dorchester Suites, 1850 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL.
"Of course we've included work by Charles," says Ms. Teller. "Warm wishes to all."
Some of this work dates as far back as 1937.
Art Fair
Fine Art Print Fair
November, 2018
The Susan Teller Gallery is at the Fine Art Print Fair at the Javits Center in New York City.
"And of course Charles goes where we go," says Ms. Teller.
Check us out!
Exhibition
August, 2018
Works by Charles Keller are featured in the BEACHES: END OF SUMMER WRAP UP (August through September 30, 2018) exhibition at the Susan Teller Gallery. This one is Menemsha Beach, Martha's Vineyard, MA, 1957 and can be seen here.
Ms. Teller has represented Charles for decades and the Estate is proud to announce that this representation is ongoing. She writes, "As the summer winds down here are a few beach scenes to remind us of how glorious the season can be. These pieces are from the Estates of the Artists and in very good to excellent condition."
Other Keller works can be seen here and among American Paintings.
Acquisition
May, 2018
Crisp Museum of Southeast Missouri State University
The Charles Keller Estate is proud to announce that the artworks recently aquired by the Crisp Museum of Southeast Missouri State University are now on exhibition there.
The Crisp Museum is home to the most extensive collection of Charles's work in a public museum.
Here is the Museum's announcement of this exhibition.
Photos of the work can be seen here.
Acquisitions
April, 2017
The Charles Keller Estate announces three major museum aquisitions:
- The Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art of Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- The Wolfsonian Museum, Miami, FL
- The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Cold Beer and Red Art -- Informal Reception
6-9 PM, July 23, 2016
Charles Keller's Art Studio Celebrates 40 Years on the Lower East Side
703 East 6th St. at Ave. C
Please RSVP
Or contact one of us for an appointment:
Marthe Keller
917 821 9704
marthe@keller-email.com
Tracy Zungola
charles@keller-email.com
Open Studio
April 28-30, 2016
The End of an Era on the Lower East Side
703 East 6th St (Ave. C)
Thursday April 28 5:00 - 8:00pm
Friday April 29 5:00 - 8:00pm
Saturday April 30 - 12 - 6 pm
The Keller family is pleased to present the Charles Keller collection, celebrating 43 years of continuous operation of the artist's original loft space. The collection features his work from the 1940s, 1950s and, for the first time shown in New York, a body of work he did while living in Italy during the 1960s and early 1970s.
Please join us for a taste of the old Lower East Side in this bohemian setting with a final showing and sale of paintings, drawings and prints before the studio yields to market forces and closes in August 2016.
RSVP to katy@keller-email.com or to colterrule@gmail.com or to marthe@keller-email.com... or just come!
Please contact Tracy Zungola, Studio Curator, at charles@keller-email.com to make an appointment for a visit or to be added to the mailing list for upcoming events.
There's a cool hip joint around the corner called Edi and the Wolf. A gang of us are going there after the show. The owner Edi Freunder lived in Charles's loft for ten years after Charles died. Order dinner and Edi will buy you a complimentary "red manhattan".
Preservation | April, 2015
The Keller family is pleased and honored to announce the transfer of part of the Charles Keller archive to the Tamiment Library at New York University.
The Library is a world-reknowned repository for artifacts and documents of radical and left history. Sample images can be seen here.
This collection, named the Charles Keller Workshop of Graphic Arts Papers TAM.445, includes hundreds of his political cartoons from New Masses, March of Labor, Daily World and Peoples Daily World, dating from the 1940s through the 1980s. The collection also includes his personal papers, correspondence and ephemera as well as many original sketches, graphics and posters.
The collection of political cartoons includes Keller's multi-year series in the Peoples Daily World that can be seen at www.keller-arts.com/art-political-cartoons.html.
The Library is located on the 10th Floor of 70 Washington Square South (West 4th between LaGuardia and Greene Streets), New York, NY 10012.
Exhibition | August, 2014
Some works by Charles Keller are featured in the Summertime Show at the Susan Teller Gallery, 568 Broadway, Room 502, New York, NY 10012. 212/941-7335
January 27, 2014
We are saddened by the passing of folksinger and activist Pete Seeger.
In the 1950s, Charles and Pete were friends, neighbors and compatriots, radicals of the Left.
During the 1950s, Charles made sketches -- such as the one shown here -- of Pete in action. More can be seen here.
We are considering making them available for purchase. Please contact us at charles@keller-email.com if you're interested.
Collection | June, 2013
A major Charles Keller work has been acquired by an important collector (who prefers to remain anonymous). The work is the painting Buon Appetito.
The collector writes, "As you can see, the English title, Sorrow of War, is not a faithful translation from Mr. Keller's original Italian name. There is a deeply personal reason behind it..."
